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Honestly, we should all be using nuclear power until we have viable,long term clean/renewable energy.
People bring up Chernobyl, Three Mile and Fukashima as examples but people forget that the two former were at least 30+ years ago, and the latter was built on a fault line and was hit by two natural disasters.
We have better technology now to prevent this sort of stuff and we should probably avoid building these plants in disaster prone areas.
It’s true that nuclear plants are now safer than ever, but there’s still the issue of nuclear waste that we can’t get rid of. We can bury it deep into the ground, but even then it will eventually have horrible effects on future generations.
Okay, let’s talk about radioactive waste. And only radioactive waste. Not any other kind of pollution.
When this waste is produced by a nuclear power plant, it comes out in sturdy, carefully sealed, well-shielded canisters which can be contained safely for thousands of years, until we determine a better way to deal with them.
But a coal burning plant? For the same amount of energy produced, it outputs one hundred times as much radioactive waste. But this happens in the form of a fine powder mixed in with the smoke, which then gets pumped directly into the air we breathe.
Even if you completely ignore everything coming out of those smokestacks which is not actively radioactive, to make nuclear power as bad as coal burning you would need to take all those nice little cans of spent fuel, crack them all open, fucking aerosolize that shit, then snort some of it and dust the rest over the nearest forest. And then multiply it by a hundred somehow.
Nuclear power might not be good, but every other option we have right now is several orders of magnitude worse. And by fighting against nuclear power you’re not replacing it with some magical null state, you’re replacing it with more of the filthy bullshit that has been killing us all for the last couple centuries.
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